Portal Trouble
(I have been thinking about this crossover for a while and want to write more stories with my OC Maisie. Also, this is an AU where Samantha and Maise are part of the show and this takes place after season 12 and season 2 of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Smiling Friends. I don't own Smiling Friends or Aqua Teen Hunger Force, they are created by Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack and Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro respectfully. I was informed that the Aqua Teens are in Seattle, New Jersey.)
It was a normal afternoon, and Maisie was starting her home alone freedom since Samantha was going to attend the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Convention somewhere in Philadelphia for a couple of weeks. This was the first time Maisie was left alone for that long, and she was free to do whatever she wanted without her older sister breathing down her neck. The prodigy could eat whatever she wanted, go to bed anytime she wanted, go out late as she wanted and do dangerous experiments anytime she wanted. Like using Jewel Wasp venom, she got in the mail as a way to use it to treat diseases and/or use it as a mind control serum with a bit of her DNA so her victim only follows her orders, but not dangerous enough to destroy the house inside or outside. There was one experiment she wanted to do: a device that can create dimensional portals to, different places, different timelines, multiverses and planets. The last time she did something like that, it only took her to different places on Earth like poor third world countries and started small fires in their old apartment.
"Since Samantha isn't here to breathe down my neck and there's nothing good on TV," stated Maisie to herself, "I guess it's time to test out my new and improved dimensional portals."
Maisie went to her room, walked to her desk, and pulled out something kind of similar Rick's portal gun from Rick and Morty. She tweaked some adjustments to the portal gun and shot a portal at her bedroom wall. Before Maisie left, she turned on the security system that she installed after her estranged mother showed up out of the blue and tried to break into their house. That woman had built up a tolerance to being peppered sprayed, tased and tear gassed, so this security system would make sure no one can get in.
She grabbed her backpack with the stuff she needed and her cellphone to keep Samantha in the loop. Also, to see if Shake got the "ostrich" he ordered online through the dark web in order become a viral star and not a cassowary that "someone" (who was able to hack into his dark web account) and changed the order without him noticing. Meatwad was in on it too and would send her the video when it arrived, and she will get some footage from her security cameras as well.
Maisie went through the portal, where it took her to Buttworld from Rick and Morty. Maisie couldn't handle the smell and transferred herself to a different world. She went to a world that was ruled by hyper-evolved apes who tried to get her when they saw her. So, the young scientist got out of there as soon as possible. Maisie went to other worlds as well, like a world where everybody was upside down, a world where people were inside out, and a world where everybody was chibi. She stopped at ta sixth world where she found herself in an alleyway, because her portal gun was beginning to act up.
"Come on you stupid fucking thing! WORK!" ordered a frustrated Maisie as she smacked at it to work, but instantly dropped it when it started to spark. When the portal gun stopped sparking, the young genius picked it up and inspected it to see what went wrong. A battery got fried and some important part needed to be replaced. "Well, that's just great!"
Maisie let out a frustrated sigh, then hissed out, "Fuck! How the fuck am I going to go back home now!?"
She knew telling Frylock about the situation is a bad idea. He would bombard her with questions until she finally broke down and told him the truth, then she'd be forced to hear an hour-long ass lecture from him and Samantha would get involved. She did not need that in her life at the moment. She then pressed her finger on the left side of her glasses, which started to scan the alleyway. When the scanning was done, the glasses shot out a holo-tablet in Maisie's hands. The young genius begins to scroll through her holo-tablet looking through this dimension with no specific name, other than being somewhat similar to her world. She learned about the creatures that are called "critters" that co-exist with humans.
She was so busy with her research, she didn't notice a tall red man with a blue tie staring at her while holding a trash bag. Not wanting to get into trouble with the law of this universe, Maisie booked it out of the alleyway.
All the red man could do was shrug, take out the trash and head into the building. There was a rec room where a yellow man and a little pink man were sitting at a table, and a tiny little green man was napping on a beanbag chair. The red man walked in, alerting the pink man.
"You were outside for a while, Allan. What's going on?" the pink man asked.
"I just saw some homeless teenage girl in the alley who ran away when she saw me, Pim." the man called Allan simply explained, in a squeaky, but monotone voice.
"That's horrible, that poor girl!" The Pim stated sadly.
"I'm sure she'll be fine, dude." The yellow man nonchalantly said. "She's probably just wandering around the city or something like that."
Mr. Boss peeked his head around a corner after hearing the commotion coming from the break room. "She probably wasn't homeless, they stopped coming around here."
"Why?" Pim asked the eccentric boss.
"Cause I don't care much for loiterers," Mr. Boss said, his voice now his menacing southern accent, before he slowly moved out of sight. Everyone was silent until Charlie, the yellow man chimed in, "Okay, I'm half convinced that Mr. Boss is a serial killer."
The others agreed with that, voicing their concerns of their boss's mental wellbeing and their own safety all at once. Like "Yeah", "Totally" and "He's a bit crazy at times."
"I usually spray homeless people with dirty water whenever they refuse to leave. Thank goodness that girl left, so I don't have the problem of carrying around the dirty brown water hose all day." Allan stated as if it were a normal thing to do, but his co-workers think differently.
"You really shouldn't be doing that, Allan," Pim told his red co-worker in a serious tone.
"Yeah man, a lot of people ruin their career doing shitty stuff similar to that," Charlie pointed out, being familiar with cancel culture and how sensitive people are. "Also, where do you even get dirty brown water anyway?"
"Wouldn't you like to know," Allan simply stated. Charlie decided not to argue, because they would just be going to go back and forth.
"Anyway, I'm sure that girl will be okay. She's probably with her friends or family at the moment," the Yellow man said it. Even though her friends back home are distracted with something else.
At the home of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a shady van, pulled up in front of it. A shady man, who looked like a computer hacker, came out of the van pulled out a big crate and put it on the sidewalk. Frylock came outside to see the what's going on.
"What the hell is this?!" Frylock demanded as he floated to the shady man.
"Special order for Master Shake," the man simply stated as he held up a tablet clipboard and a pen to Frylock.
" Hang on! That's me!" Shake exclaimed, bursting through the door. He then rushed over to push Frylock aside, taking the pen from the shady man and signing the clipboard.
"Shake, what the hell is this!?" interrogated the floating box of fries.
"None of your goddamn business, that's what it is. Other than my ticket to internet stardom," the milkshake rudely and arrogantly stated, then turned to the crate when it started shaking aggressively. "I can rub it in Meatwad's face, and make him wish he never stole my idea for fame and fortune!"
The shady man, who been standing the whole time, listening from the sideline, decided to chime in. "Do you mean the Cassowary, man?"
The man begins to beep rapidly. " Shit, I said too much!", were his last as his head exploded, along with the van. The two food monsters jumped to the side, even though the explosion was small. This caught the attention of their next-door neighbor, Carl who was not too happy about the explosion, because it was not helping his hangover one bit.
"Hey guys! What's with all the fucking explosions going on this late!?" Carl started off passive-aggressively, from the stoop of his house. "If you're going to blow shit up, make sure you blow yourselves up instead!"
"Oh, like how you blew up your bank account maxing out all your credit cards on porn sites?" snarked Shake.
"You're so lucky I'm hungover right now or else you'd be laying in a pool of your own blood!" Stated Carl as he heads back in the house to nurse his headache.
Shake continued with his business by opening the crate (which surprisingly wasn't affected by the explosion) with a crowbar and was able to pry it open, revealing a cassowary. This caused Frylock to back away slowly with wide eyes.
"Back away, Shake. That's a cassowary, the most dangerous bird on the planet. Their kick can kill a man," The scientist fry said tries calmly as possible so the bird wouldn't be provoked. But of course, as usual, his word fell on death ears.
"Just because your whore is an animal-loving lesbian and you're too pussy-whipped to stand your ground as a man, doesn't mean you will push your beliefs onto me," Shake snidely stated, approaching the dangerous bird. "This fugly bird needs to learn its place and know that I am the master! Alright, ya overgrown turkey, let me ride you see so I can get internet famous!"
The Cassowary squeak at the stupid milkshake aggressively to warn him, but Shake, being the jackass idiot that he is, thought it was a good idea to smack the bird with a crowbar. Frylock, already in the house, with the door locked, was calling animal control (which he has on speed dial, along with other emergency contacts) to take care of the cassowary.
"Hey Daniel, could you and your crew come here and handle a cassowary in our front yard?" Frylock ask. He saw his roommate getting sliced and punctured by the cassowary's sharp dagger-like claws. Shake screamed and tried to escape, after being kicked hard., but the loss of blood finally got to him.
"This is all your fault, you stupid bitch!" the milkshake stated, using his last breath to curse Maisie, before passing out. And speaking of Maisie, let's see how she is holding up.
The young prodigy was wandering the urban streets of Pennsylvania. It was getting late and cold, and being mid-August didn't help much. She had her purple jacket zipped up, but it could only keep her warm for a short amount of time. Maisie also had an encounter with a dangerous man a few hours ago, all because she accidently bumped into a muscle-bound jerk when she was running out of the alleyway. She apologized to the man, but he decides to be an asshole about it and called her "shrimp", "dorky little bitch", and "four-eyes runt" and other stuff that made Maisie's blood boil. She got enough of that from Shake and didn't need the same crap from that creep, even if he is kind of hot. Maisie snapped and called him an "insecure, low-level, Neanderthal who will die a lonely death one day." The man didn't understand half of what she said, but he didn't like it. He grabbed her by the arm to prevent her from escaping, but before he could do anything bad to the anti-heroine of the story, he got a face full of bear mace. He screamed in pain and rubbed his eyes, which bought her enough time to escape into a crowd of people.
Now it was getting late and Maisie didn't have enough money to even get a motel. However, she would rather sleep on the street than stay at a filthy, low-rate motel. She should have brought more money, then she wouldn't have to worry about sleeping on the street, and she should have never tried out her portal gun.
While Maisie was lost in her thoughts, she bumped into a couple of people. Thinking they were similar to the man she had bumped into earlier, the 19-year-old pulled out her bear mace and aimed it at the people in front of her.
" You fuckers better not come near me or you'll get a face full of bear mace!" she exclaimed, keeping her hand on the trigger.
The small pink man and heavyset yellow man started to shout "WOAH! WOAH! WOAH!" They both backed up a few steps and kept their hands in sight so they won't have faces full of bear mace.
"So, what's going on? Is everything alright?" the yellow one asked, trying to calm the young woman down.
" What the fuck do you think, dumbass!?" exclaimed Maisie, still holding the bear mace.
"I don't know, we just bumped into you. A-and could you put that down, I really don't wanna get sprayed in the eyes with that stuff. I knew a guy who got pepper sprayed and he crapped himself, and I'd really like to avoid that," rambled the yellow critter in panic.
"It's bear mace, not pepper spray, genius!" sassed the young genius. "It's much stronger than pepper spray."
"W-w-wait! There's no need to do that, miss!" The little one stepped in to defuse the situation. "We're the Smiling Friends!"
"Smiling Friends?" Maisie repeated that statement in confusion. "What the hell is that?"
"We're a small charity organization that helps people smile, and we don't have any bad intentions toward you," the yellow one explained. This made Maisie rethink things and lower the bear mace.
"Maybe you guys have a point, you seem too pussy-like to do me any harm. No offense," stated the raven-haired girl a ponytail.
"Well, that was unnecessary, but you're stressed so I won't hold it against you," the pink man stated.
"I mean, you didn't have to say that, but as long as I don't get sprayed I'll let it slide," his companion chimed in. Pim then realized something when he saw Maisie.
"Aren't you that homeless teenage girl from the alleyway that Allan saw?" he asked. This caused Maisie to raise her bear mace at them again.
"Do I look fucking homeless to you assholes!?" demanded the angry young scientist.
" OH, COME ON!" exclaimed Charlie, while Pim started saying "Sorry, sorry, sorry," really quickly.
"It's bad enough having to encounter some muscle-bound dickhead with creepy red eyes insulting me, I don't need any more insults," stated Maisie. This made the yellow critter widen his eyes, because he knew one person who best fit that description.
"Holy shit, did you really encounter that guy!? That dude's a fucking psycho, kinda surprised he isn't still after you," he explained. "Long story short, that guy took advantage of the Smiling Friends policy to humiliate me, ripped off my nose and threatened to saw my head off slowly. He only left when he killed that CEO of a video company that Gwimbly used to work at."
Maisie started to calm down again. "I've heard and seen stranger shit in my life like that and that sounded tamer than what I'm used to. Sorry for the hostility. My name is Maisie Higgins and I am just lost in this strange place."
"My name is Pim Pimling and this is my best friend, Charlie Dompler," introduced the little pink man.
"Weird names, but nice to meet you anyway," stated Maisie, then she explained her current situation. "I currently have no place to stay and I don't have the money to even afford a motel. I have to sleep on the street or squat in an abandoned building."
"Yeah, maybe don't. I've watched a lot of true crime documentaries, and they show people you could meet at night. They, they are messed up," Charlie pointed out.
"Good point. Then what am I supposed to do?" questioned the prodigy.
"You can stay with me, only if you want to?" the small critter asked in a way to not impose something. This caused Charlie to take his naïve best friend to the side to have a not-so private chat.
"Pim are you sure about that? You can't just take in a complete stranger you just met, especially one who came from a portal and appears to be unstable," the yellow critter whispered to his companion, referring the video from the surveillance cameras outside of Smiling Friends HQ that Mr. Boss finally put up to keep out unwanted intruders.
"We can't just let her fend for herself out on the street. I don't want anything bad happen to her," Pim whispered back pointed out in the whisper, then ask. "Why don't you take her in instead?"
"I would love to, but m-my place is being fumigated and a family friend just died recently and it's causing me a lot of stress," Charlie blatantly lied.
"I didn't want to stay at your place anyway. Judging by the look of you, your place must be a total pigsty" Maisie stated sassily with her arm crossed. "By the way, I could hear you guys. You need to learn how to whisper better."
Pim and Charlie looked embarrassed about the situation. Maisie just rolled her eyes at this and decided to move on.
"Yeah… thinking back, Desmond could probably hear us; he just didn't care. Also, yeah, I've fallen behind on the cleaning lately. I mean, I wouldn't say it's that bad, but probably not great for guests," Charlie admitted.
"Who the fuck is Desmond? You know, what never mind," stated the female genius. She then turned to Pim, who had a thousand-yard stare from that memory of what Desmond said when he was giving up on life. "Show me to your place."
Pim quickly snapped out of it, shaking off the negative reminder. "Oh right, let me show you the way!" he said in his usual enthusiastic cheerfulness, leading Maisie away. "Goodnight, Charlie!"
"Goodnight, guys. I better get going before I run into that psycho," Charlie called out as he headed to his apartment.
The two arrived at their destination. Pim offered to make Maisie dinner, but she declined since she wanted some alone time. Pim respected her choice to be alone after everything that happened, but set up a place of spaghetti for her in case she changed her mind, which Maisie was grateful for when she was got hungry and realized she hadn't eaten all day. Pim set up a cot for her to sleep on in the living room, since there was no spare bedroom in the apartment. She enjoyed a dinner alone, while watching the video that Meatwad uploaded of Shake getting mauled by the cassowary. The video was called "When Animals Attack: The Dumbass Edition" and it had already gotten a million view in the last couple of hours. Maisie was laughing at it, which caught Pim's attention.
"What are you laughing at Maisie?" he asked, having finished setting up her sleep area.
"Oh nothing, just a funny video my neighbor Meatwad had sent me," Maisie answered, not telling him that it was about her jackass neighbor getting mauled and sent to the hospital.
"That's nice. Anyway, I got your sleeping area set up. Sorry it's not much," the kind little critter stated.
"Don't worry about it, it's enough for me," reassured Maisie. She then got up to stretch and yawn. "I think I need to turn in for tonight."
Pim agreed with her, and Maisie helped him clean up dinner. After that, she went to the bathroom to change into her pjs she brought with her. After exchanging goodnights with each other, they headed to their separate sleeping quarters. She settled in her cot, looking at her phone and looking at her messages from Meatwad, who informed her that Frylock was with Shake at the hospital and was too distracted at the moment to bother her. Maisie informed him that she was trapped in a dimension and to not get Frylock involved or have Samantha return home early, who would never trust her little sister to be alone again. She could trust the little ball of meat and she knew he would keep it low key for her, until she was able to get back home in the next 48 hours. Telling Frylock about the predicament and giving him the blueprint to her dimensional portal gun, and the location to said dimension she is stuck in, will be used as a last resort.
Maisie took some edibles to help her sleep without worry, because she knew she will have a busy day tomorrow.
(Will Maisie be able to get home? How will she be able to find the parts she needs to fix her Portal Gun? Will Shake learn not to be an impulsive jackass? Afraid not. Find out in the next chapter. That's all for now and I would like to thank trickster3696 and ribbonetta for all their help.)